Seminars and Lectures

The Plant Mating System and the Evolution of Resistance

When January 20, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Where 108 Wartik Lab

The Plant Mating System and the Evolution of Resistance presented by Regina Baucom, University of Michigan
The Multi-layer Network Structure of Virtual Water Flows in the United States

When January 21, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Where 312 Ag Engineering Building

Water Insights Spring Seminar: The Multi-layer Network Structure of Virtual Water Flows in the United States presented by Alfonso Mejia, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State
Anthracite as a filter media for removing petrogenic hydrocarbons from stormwater”

When January 21, 2020, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Where 312 Ag Engineering Building

Presented ByCarlos Pulido, ABE M.S. Graduate Student
Evolution of the South Fork Eel River watershed: The known unknowns

When January 21, 2020, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where 22 Deike Building

Nicole Gasparini of ​Tulane University​ will present Evolution of the South Fork Eel River watershed: The known unknowns.
Declining CO2 Price Paths

When January 22, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Where 312 Ag Engineering Building

Presenters: Gernot Wagner
Opportunities for New Climate Science Insights through Stakeholder Engagement

When January 22, 2020, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Where 112 Walker Building

Presenters: Robert Nicholas
Imaging groundwater systems beneath ice sheets and oceans

When January 23, 2020, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where 22 Deike Building

Chloe Gustafson, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University to present ​Imaging groundwater systems beneath ice sheets and oceans.
Assessing the impact of shale gas development on water resources

When January 23, 2020, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where 157 Hosler Building

Energy for the Future Seminar: Assessing the impact of shale gas development on water resources presented by Susan Brantley, Distinguished Professor of Geosciences, Director of Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State
Bombus huntii - a promising commercial pollinator for Western North America

When January 24, 2020, 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
Where 107 Forest Resource Building

Seminar: Bombus huntii - a promising commercial pollinator for Western North America with Jonathan Koch, University of Hawaii
Microbial communities in tropical pitcher plants: the role of plant-regulated factors

When January 24, 2020, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where W203 Millennium Science Complex

Kadeem Gilbert, Ph.D., Penn State
Predicting the future of plant diversity: New applications for digitized herbarium data

When January 25, 2020, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where 101 Thomas Building

Pamela Soltis is a Distinguished Professor and Curator in the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida and serves as Director of the University of Florida Biodiversity Institute.
How Photosynthesis Informs Protein Synthesis

When January 27, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Where 108 Wartik Lab

Albrecht von Arnim, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Bacteriophage ecology for plant disease control

When January 27, 2020, 3:35 PM - 4:35 PM
Where 112 Buckhout Laboratory

Presenters: Abdelmonim Ahmad Ebrahim
Integrated Investigations of Water in Arid Environments on Earth and Mars

When January 27, 2020, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where 401 Steidle Building

Rachel Rotz, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geology, ​Water Resources and Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Georgia to present Integrated Investigations of Water in Arid Environments on Earth and Mars
The Role of Subsidence during the Development of North American Polar/Subtropical Jet Superpositions

When January 29, 2020, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Where 112 Walker Building

Presenter: Daniel Keyser, University of Albany, College of Arts and Sciences
Transboundary Management under Alternative Objectives with Applications to Diseases

When January 30, 2020, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where W203 Millennium Science Complex

Julie Blackwood, Williams College
Transboundary Management under Alternative Objectives with Applications to Diseases

When January 30, 2020, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where W203 Millennium Science Complex

Julie Blackwood, Williams College
What Turned a Bacterial Endosymbiont into a Global Pandemic and Vector Control Strategy?

When January 31, 2020, 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
Where 107 Forest Resource Building

Seth Bordenstein, Vanderbilt
Optimal spatial-dynamic management to minimize the damages caused by aquatic invasive species

When January 31, 2020, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Where 106 Forest Resources Building

Katherine Zipp, PSU AESE
How many visitors can the Galapagos hold? Finding a sustainable model

When January 31, 2020, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Where 319 and 112 Walker Building

Arturo Izurieta is the Executive Director of the Charles Darwin Foundation. With extensive experience in research, management of protected areas and management of local affairs, he has worked for more than 30 years in strategic projects and in facilitating relationships between government authorities, native and scientific communities in Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, Australia, Malaysia and Central America.
Coffee Hour with Arturo Izurieta

When January 31, 2020, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Where 319 and 112 Walker Building

Arturo Izurieta is the Executive Director of the Charles Darwin Foundation.
Understanding wildlife connectivity and disease spread through GPS tracking

When February 1, 2020, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where 100 Huck Life Sciences Building

Ephraim Hanks is a statistician with a specialty in methods for spatial and spatio-temporal data.
The Genetic, Environmental, and Physiological Basis of Local Adaptation in Plants

When February 3, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Where 108 Wartik Lab

David Lowry, Michigan State University
Global warming, human heat stress, and energy/climate policy

When February 3, 2020, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where 112 Walker Building

The Spring 2020 EarthTalks series titled "Societal Problems, EESI Science towards Solutions" features Jim Kasting presenting "Global warming, human heat stress, and energy/climate policy"
Gene Duplication and Protein Structure as the First Layers of a Mechanistic Approach to Studying the Evolution of the Genotype-Phenotype Map

When February 5, 2020, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where 501 Wartik Lab

Weekly Wednesday Wartik Genomics Seminar speaker David Liberles, Temple University
The known knowns and known unknowns of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

When February 7, 2020, 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM
Where 107 Forest Resource Building

Aaron Smith, Purdue University
Symbiont Reefscapes: Microbial interactions with threatened coral hosts and reef ecosystems

When February 7, 2020, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where W203 Millennium Science Complex

Adrienne Correa, Ph.D., Rice University
Biodegradation/bioremediation of contaminants in Alaska

When February 7, 2020, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Where 106 Forest Resources Building

Mary Beth Leigh, University of Alaska Fairbanks
How Do Plants Climb? Macroevolutionary Patterns to Fine-scale Cell Wall Dynamics

When February 10, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Where 108 Wartik Lab

Joyce Chery, Penn State University
Positive societal impacts of origin of life and space sciences research

When February 10, 2020, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where 112 Walker Building

The Spring 2020 EarthTalks series titled "Societal Problems, EESI Science towards Solutions" features Christopher H. House presenting “Positive societal impacts of origin of life and space sciences research”

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Office for Research and Graduate Education

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217 Agricultural Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802-2600